Two Models of Population Growth
- 1 December 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 82 (4) , 782-798
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1980.82.4.02a00040
Abstract
Two simple models of the ecology of population growth are described: “exponential” growth with “r‐selection,” and “logistic” growth, with “K‐selection.” Various methods for estimating the parameters of these models are presented in detail, along with statistical methods of evaluation and comparison. Also briefly discussed are more complex models of population growth sometimes used by demographers and ecologists. The two simpler models of population growth are then applied, by way of illustration, to two episodes of population growth in protohistoric southwest Iran, dating from 4000–2350 B. C. Interpretation of the results and the implications for future research are then discussed. [population growth, statistical models, exponential growth, logistic growth, early Iran]Keywords
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